New police recruits start in Launceston (8/5/2024)

Tasmania Police has welcomed six new recruits who have started work in Launceston. Video by Aaron Smith (8/5/2024)

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00:00 It's exciting to get new graduates from the Academy at any time.

00:04 Launceston is one of the bigger training stations in the state, so the more we get the merrier.

00:10 We've been really well supported over the years with graduating people from the Academy,

00:14 and today we welcomed six new graduates into the Launceston Uniform area.

00:19 It's exciting because it allows us to deploy them straight away into the field.

00:24 You might see them on the streets walking the beat,

00:27 you might see them because you might get pulled over,

00:30 you might see them at a job that you've requested police for.

00:33 So having those extra numbers is a real benefit to me personally, running a big division,

00:38 and also for the Launceston community in having more uniform police visible on the streets.

00:44 We're actually after diversity, so we want people of different thought processes,

00:50 different backgrounds, different genders, different identities, just to apply.

00:55 We're representative of the Tasmanian community,

00:58 and we know that there is a broad range of different personalities and people and cultures in Tasmania,

01:04 so we want the police force to be reflective of that.

01:07 So if we can get the most diverse applicants to apply for police,

01:12 then that is such a great benefit to the community in the long run,

01:16 because we don't want to all be the same.

01:19 We want to be different, and I've told the guys behind me that they're to make their own identity.

01:24 Definitely all the stuff they've put in practice or learnt at the academy, they put in practice now,

01:29 but forge their own way and their own identity through the police force,

01:32 and bring in their own learnings, their own backgrounds, and their own experiences

01:37 to really mould how they operate as a police officer in the future.

01:40 [Silence]